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  1. Skyfox

    Easy way to make a laminate bow

    I am trying it again with the same setup, beech wood laminates glued together with hide glue and achieved again 10cm of Perry reflex. This time with better glue, additional helping hands for glueing and wood with a better structure. I planned in a thicker grip, to be able to shape it later, but...
  2. Skyfox

    Easy way to make a laminate bow

    I will definitely experiment further soon. Because drawing the bow had such a good feeling to it that, it was really fun. But beech wood and high draw weight might not go together well. Will post again wenn i did something new.
  3. Skyfox

    Easy way to make a laminate bow

    Before it broke I measured 24#, but that was before the fine sanding. It must have been around that when i shot the 3 arrows nicely at a brace height of about 10 to 12cm. Then it broke when trying to brace it properly, unfortunately too late to measure again😅
  4. Skyfox

    Easy way to make a laminate bow

    @alanesq: Hello, I know your post is years back, but as I have just tried, slightly unsuccessfully, my first laminate bow, I would like to ask about the approx. thickness of the different laminates you have used. Mine was beech wood, 180cm x 25mm x 6mm for the back layer and 10mm for the belly...
  5. Skyfox

    Swiss Yew Longbow

    And another detail
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    Swiss Yew Longbow

    Here unbraced
  7. Skyfox

    Swiss Yew Longbow

    Finally, it is almost finished. Brace height is reached, the string made, the arrows shoot nicely, but the draw weight came down to about 19#-ish. This was the toughest bow to make so far for me because of many knots and a very curvy stave.
  8. Skyfox

    Which part of the bow is it best to start tillering first?

    Hello, this post sounds like it would be the first selfbow. Maybe the following helps: Get a rough idea, of the bow design you plan to achieve. Whatever design (longbow/flatbow?) you come up with, it will have less thickness towards the ends/tips than towards the middle. Start by taking away...
  9. Skyfox

    Swiss Yew Longbow

    And here how it looks a little straighter. Measurements will follow when they become clearer...😁
  10. Skyfox

    Swiss Yew Longbow

    So, the next work is in progress. Another yew branch, but much harder and very bent. As I have to heat bend it I don't target a high draw weight, and it is also not that long.
  11. Skyfox

    Swiss Yew Longbow

    The measurements of this bow are: Width in cm: Middle 3.1, tip shoulder 2.1, tip 1.0 Thickness in cm: Middle 2.7, tip shoulder 1.6, tip 1.4 From middle to tip shoulder the width and thickness gradually reduce, give or take a bit due to the shape of the stave itself. The set is now a 1 finger...
  12. Skyfox

    Pointless...

    Isn't it that an arrow without a tip/point is like having a stiffer spine and therefore for a right-handed archer it has to fly off to the left?
  13. Skyfox

    Swiss Yew Longbow

    Stringed with selfmade 3-ply flax string: The finished bow, polished with sand papers and with a layer of bees wax, at its first 3D parcours:
  14. Skyfox

    Swiss Yew Longbow

    Thanks Del for the kind comment! With a little bit of will, one can make a bow out of any kind of wood. Some will be rather week but they still work for a beginner. Worse wood will develop chrysals, but even that won't destroy a bow. One of my experimental hazelwood bows has frets all over the...
  15. Skyfox

    Swiss Yew Longbow

    Was lucky to have received some yew saplings or branches. 4 to 6 cm diameter. As I trained on various and funnily bent wood pieces like ash, hazel, willow and fir, I really fell in love with working with yew. With 37,2# at 29" this became my first selfmade bow over 30# which has been my target...
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